In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.

Quote by Bertrand Russell

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Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds...

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds...

Some 'advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion...

Some 'advanced thinkers' are of the opinion that anyone who differs from the conventional opinion...

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more...

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more...

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make...

Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make...

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our...

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our...

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with...

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with...

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true...

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true...

The man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man; neither was...

The man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man; neither was...

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been...

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been...

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can...

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can...

Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of...

Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of...

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what...

Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what...

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love...

I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love...

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was...

Before World War I one of the objections commonly urged against votes for women was...

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the...

Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the...

It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you...

It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you...

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect

Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the...

An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the...